Sentences with phrase «jumbo jets»

I have flown on jumbo jets, smaller jets and propeller airplanes.

The article is about a growing trend among the ultra rich to purchase jumbo jets for private use.

In fact, as this great video shows at the end, flying is cheaper than ever, half of what it cost thirty years ago, when they were already flying jumbo jets.

This is like trying to replace jumbo jets with hang gliders.»

Flashback 1975 New York Times: Climate Experts Said That Jumbo Jets Would Cool The Planet And Produce Global Famine

Its nets are so huge that they're sometimes big enough to hold 12 jumbo jets.

Meanwhile, manufacturers led by Siemens AG are working to almost double the capacity of the current range of turbines, which already have wingspans bigger than the largest jumbo jets.

In testimony to a US Senate hearing last year, Peter J. Pronovost of Johns Hopkins University school of medicine described the deaths as the equivalent of two jumbo jets falling out of the sky every 24 hours.

For the same reason that Jumbo Jets don't have the grand pianos and palm - court cocktail bars we were originally promised in the brochures, the accountants naturally won the day.

Crowning the three hotel towers at 200 metres in the sky, the Sands SkyPark stretches longer than the Eiffel tower or four A380 Jumbo Jets when laid down.

«Hanging out at Maho Beach in Saint Marten is hilarious, as landing and taking off jumbo jets come in very closely overhead.

By the 1990s, the IAB had moved so far from its original elegant vision after having been modified beyond recognition over the years (in order to meet the demands of the jet age and, later on, the introduction of jumbo jets) that it was soon considered an eyesore.

I like that they managed to squeeze the seats in an A380 jumbo jets to make it feel like the space of a domestic carrier plane.

It is what allows jumbo jets weighing over a million pounds to climb into the sky.

Water and sanitation problems have reached boiling point; children are dying unnecessarily at the rate of 20 jumbo jets crashing every day.

But many nuclear physicists and engineers are not on board with nuclear airplanes, especially in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks during which terrorists plowed jumbo jets into the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

Saving ozone with a no - go zone: Jumbo jets are spending more time in the stratosphere than previously realised, and their emissions are damaging the ozone layer.

Yes, the threat of war between major powers has declined, he notes, but the ability of small groups or even individuals to wreak enormous havoc — with nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons, not to mention jumbo jets — has grown.

Accumulated in this area are 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic, weighing 80,000 metric tons, the equivalent of 500 Jumbo Jets.

Flights to Europe tend to involve the larger jumbo jets, and that is where the big money is — not only because more seats can be sold, but those overnight European flights can also be extraordinarily costly to consumers.

The company also announced that it will order 14 new 747 jumbo jets from Boeing for added capacity on top of the 14 it purchased from the aircraft manufacturer last September.

The company gave the iconic humped jumbo jet, known at the «Queen of the Skies,» a special send - off.

In the summer of 2016, Boeing suggested it could end production of the original jumbo jet — the Boeing 747 — as airlines eschewed the plane in favor of more fuel - efficient models.

Passengers are having a tougher time finding a seat on theBoeing 747 these days, but that doesn't mean their stuff won't be hitching a ride on the original jumbo jet.

''... I used to joke with my colleagues that Larry & Sergey go out on their yachts - tie them together, sit back on the same recliners you'll find on their jumbo jet, each on his own yacht / set of yachts, smoke cigars, and put up pictures of Googlers with little snippets like «was a GM at muti - national telecomm company, got a Harvard MBA and is now answering Orkut tickets.»

Airbus has pinned hopes of continuing production of its double - decker jumbo jet on Emirates, the world's largest operator of the aircraft which took delivery of its 100th A380 earlier this month.

Or «starting a business is like a rocket ship taking off into space» and «launching a business is like getting a jumbo jet off the runway» or «Launching a business is like launching a rocket.

A person who needs to get from home to work doesn't care if he gets there in a BMW or a Volvo any more than you care whether Boeing or Airbus makes the jumbo jet you fly in.

The A300 wasn't designed to be a rival for Boeing's jumbo jet.

The incident aboard an Airbus A380 jumbo jet that had been pushed back from its gate bound for Incheon, near Seoul, provoked outrage in South Korea when it was reported on Monday.

When we leased our first 747 jumbo jet in 1984, I knew very little about the airline business, beyond the fact that I had flown a lot as a record executive and disliked it.

In the dream, itâ $ ™ s late 1985 and Peter Lougheed is piloting a jumbo jet through Albertaâ $ ™ s blue forever skies.

For example, what math was used to calculate the capability of dragline silk from an orb weaver spider that is lighter than cotton, yet ounce for ounce stronger than steel, tougher than kevlar (used in bullet - proof vests), that if the silk were 0.4 inch thick with strands 1.6 inches apart and enlarged the size of a football field, could stop a jumbo jet in flight, that is flying at an average speed of about 600 mph?

Most report being inside a relatively small craft, on the order of jumbo jet scale.

This observation caused the late Professor Sir Fred Hoyle and his colleague, Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe of Cardiff University, to conclude that the evolutionist is asking us to believe that a tornado can pass through a junk yard and assemble a jumbo jet.»

Prior to their first trip to London together, Kuhle checked to find out the length of their jumbo jet.

Apparently we're still favourites to capture him, but its gone from as loud as a jumbo jet directly above you, to as quiet as a mouse within a matter of days.

Cons: Keeping a child confined to a cramped airline seat can be difficult enough without adding the extra time that comes with preboarding — on a jumbo jet, this could be up to a half hour or more.

Pence, who flew to the military facility with his wife, second lady Karen Pence, aboard a C - 17 military jumbo jet, praised the troops» service in helping combat Islamic State fighters in nearby Syria.

«As the Labour party begins to look back over this parliament, the route map of its own destruction laid behind it will become clear, like the vapour trail from a jumbo jet.

The «Star Trek» actor was on hand when the shuttle Enterprise flew in atop a jumbo jet Friday and explained the show's influence on the shuttle's name

Ferrying space shuttles across the country is just one of the very odd jobs given to the workhorse jumbo jet

We're better off with a duopoly, and in fact we get duopoly precisely because vigorous competition between the jumbo jet giants keeps everyone else out.»

A bee and a jumbo jet: common sense would tell you that the tiny insect couldn't possibly cause any troubles for the massive airplane, right?

Each of the reactor's toroidal field coils weighs as much as a fully laden jumbo jet, and there are 18 of them in total.

A 2010 Stanford University study found that these domes act like pressure cookers, exacerbating pollution's harmful health effects, and may already be responsible for up to 1,000 excess deaths across the country, the equivalent of two jumbo jet crashes every single year.

Virgin Atlantic has flown a jumbo jet on a combination of conventional jet fuel and biofuel made from palm oil, and a jet powered solely by biodiesel has stayed aloft for more than 30 minutes — albeit with a special device to keep its fuel from freezing at high altitude.

In that program, the Missile Defense Agency spent billions of dollars and over a decade to get a laser - rigged jumbo jet to destroy a ballistic missile in its boost phase of flight.

SOFIA, an infrared telescope that rides in the back of a modified jumbo jet, holds appeal to both astronomers and planetary scientists, but its large operating expenses and long history of problems and delays had made it prime target for budget cutters.

The 150,000 - pound shuttle Enterprise never made it into orbit, but it did fly in tests on top of a 747 jumbo jet.